σμῦρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of μύραινα (múraina, “moray eel”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zmŷː.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzmy.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzmy.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzmy.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzmi.ros/
Noun
σμῦρος • (smûros) m (genitive σμῡ́ρου); second declension
- kind of eel
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σμῦρος; τοῦ σμῡ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σμῦρος ho smûros | τὼ σμῡ́ρω tṑ smū́rō | οἱ σμῦροι hoi smûroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σμῡ́ρου toû smū́rou | τοῖν σμῡ́ροιν toîn smū́roin | τῶν σμῡ́ρων tôn smū́rōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σμῡ́ρῳ tôi smū́rōi | σμῡ́ροιν smū́roin | τοῖς σμῡ́ροις toîs smū́rois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σμῦρον tòn smûron | σμῡ́ρω smū́rō | τοὺς σμῡ́ρους toùs smū́rous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σμῦρε smûre | σμῡ́ρω smū́rō | σμῦροι smûroi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: smȳrus
Further reading
- σμῦρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σμῦρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN